Well, I just found a 1978 300CD that's also on the list of possibilities.
It has 265K miles, no working glow plugs, but it has a good, straight body.
The guy isn't a mechanic, so he gave up on it. Unlike the experience with
the 220 gasser (getting yelled at when I tried to test the starter), I
go out of it. I know that there's a way to hook up jumpers from the
glow
plugs to the battery to get glow function. I believe that the
procedure
involved a jumper from 5 to positive and another from 1 to negative.
Be very sure that this is a series system! If parallel, your attempt
will tes
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:38:08PM -0800, Jim Cathey wrote:
> > go out of it. I know that there's a way to hook up jumpers from the
> > glow plugs to the battery to get glow function. I believe that the
> > procedure involved a jumper from 5 to positive and another from 1 to
> > negative.
No.
With temperatures around 50F tight valves are more of an impediment to
starting than bad glow plugs. I've found if the engine is in reasonable
condition you can get it started by placing a fully charged battery on the
car and hook another fully charged battery to jump with. Just hold the key
an
You should also be sure that a CD is what you want.
It'll be fun to have a CD around again! Now that I have the 03 Dodge
Cummins diesel quad cab pickup, and my dad has a minivan, the CD will just
be a fun car as it should be. It may be a step up toward a wagon in the
long run once it's fixed
